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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Social Disorganization In University Residence Halls, William Patrick Fennell
Christ and Class: The Protestant Episcopal Church in the South, 1760-1865, Ryan Lee Fletcher
Actual And Perceived Sexual Behaviors In College Students, Tabitha Denise Flowers
Psychological Flexibility In Migraine Patients: The Role Of Acceptance And Values-Based Action, Heather Lillian Wolfort Foote
Encounters, Judy Knowles Ford
Collaborative Memory For Serial Order, Elizabeth Lauren Foreman
Mechanical Properties Of Portland Cement And Its Constituents At The Nano-Level, Brent French
Out Of This World: Hearing Indigenous And Immigrant Music In The American South, Jake Xerxes Fussell
Exploring Mathematical Knowledge In Elementary Teacher Candidates With The Use Of Classroom-Based Artifacts, Erica Paige Gillentine
Stuck Like Glue: The Formation Of Product Attachments Among Salespeople, Erin Gillespie
Women's Substantive Representation In Latin America, Mary A. Gillip
Role of the Endocannabinoid System in Cardiac Remodeling, Monica Gole
Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond, Phillip Andrew Gordon
Re-Imagining America: Twenty-First Century Disaster And Salvation In Contemporary Fiction, Mary Ellen Gray
Two Methodologies: How Well Can Universities Predict Retention, Tiffany Lynette Gregory
Black Male Incarceration And The Preservation Of Debilitating Habits Of Judgment: An Examination Of Mississippi, Teah Monique Hairston
Panpsychism And Mind-Dust, John Heath Hamilton
Male Reproductive Strategies And Mating Displays In The Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris Ocellata), Edward Merrill Hanlon
Perspectives On Ethanol Toxicity In Medaka Embryogenesis And Possible Protection By Asian Ginseng (Panax Ginseng): Histological And Biochemical Analysis, Mona Hamdi Haron
Creek Corridors Of Commerce: Converging Empires, Cultural Arbitration, And The Recourse Of Gulf Coast Trade, Kevin T. Harrell
On Binary And Regular Matroids Without Small Minors, Kayla Davis Harville
Narratives Of Southern Contact Zones: Mobility And The Literary Imagination Of Zora Neale Hurston And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Kyoko Shoji Hearn
Early Transition Metal CCC-NHC Pincer Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalysis, Theodore Rudy Helgert
Linking The Functional Diversity Of Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Species To Soil Carbon And The Genetics Of A Foundational Tree Species, Nicole Marie Hergott
Cooperating Teacher Perceptions Of Music Student Teacher Preparedness For The Elementary Music Classroom, Charlotte Varner Hester
Talking Back To History: Leanne Howe, Linda Hogan, And Louis Owens's Rewriting Of The Southeastern Native Past Through Fiction, Kimberlee Kaitlyn Hodges
Mathematical Tasks Without Words And Word Problems: Perceptions Of Reluctant Problem Solvers, Sydney Margaret Holbert
Plants And Animals As Saviors And Invaders: Changing Perspectives On Invasive Species From The Colonial Era To The 21st Century, Meghan Leann Holmes
An Examination Of The Relationship Between Campus Involvement And Perception Of Community Among Seniors Attending Mississippi's Public Universities, James Edward Hood
Determination Of Dimer Dissociation Constant Of Neural-Cadherin By Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer, Xiaoyun Z. Howard
Single Fathers And Social Support, Elizabeth Suzanne Howe-Huist
The Effects of Ketamine on Cognitive Bias in a Stress Vulnerable Chick Strain, Kristen Anne Hymel
Graphics Processing Unit Acceleration Of Computational Electromagnetic Methods, Matthew Joseph Inman
Phylogeography of the Malagasy Ant Species Otontomachus coquereli, Jason Jackson
Geotechnical Technique To Strengthen Traditional I-Walls Through The Use Of Composite Material, Jimmy Irby Jackson
Metabolic Stability And Pharmacokinetics In Lead Optimization Of Potential Anti-Psychostimulant Pharmacotherapies, Seshulatha Jamalapuram
Three Essays On Odd-Lot Transactions, Hardy Johnson
A "Quiet Activist" During The Second-Wave Feminist Movement: Katharine Rea A Historical Case Study, Sara R. Kaiser
Enhanced PVDF Film For Multi Energy Harvesting, Ranmunige Nadeeka Karunarathna
Numerical Modeling Of Lightning Initiation And Stepped Leader Propagation, Sumedhe Karunarathne
Butch, Femme, Dyke, Or Lipstick, Aren't All Lesbians The Same?: An Exploration Of Labels And "Looks" Among Lesbians In The U.S. South, Danielle Kerr
Design Of Fountain Codes With Error Control, Amrit Kharel
The Role of Disgust in Eating Disorders, Eun Ha Kim
Mouth, Dorothy Lynn Knight
An Examination Of Wanting In Anscombe's Intention, Mallory Dianne Kunz
Effects Of A Brief, Three-Day Mindfulness Meditation Protocol, Andrew James Kurz
Chasing That Ghost On Stage: The Haunted Continent And Andrew Bird's Apocrypha, Mary Elizabeth Lasseter
A Process Evaluation Of The Brief Alcohol Screening Intervention For College Students Program At The University Of Mississippi, Tiffany Bouldin Lawson
The design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of aplysinopsin analogs as potential neuromodulators, Kevin Lewellyn
There Is A Gnawing Worm Under The Bark Of Our Tree Of Liberty: Anti-Mission Baptists, Religious Liberty, And Local Church Autonomy, John Lindbeck
Impact Of Time-Varying And Time-Invariant Measures Of Adherence To Secondary Prevention Therapies Post-Acute Myocardial Infarction: An Application Of Marginal Structural Models (MSMS), Tasneem Taher Lokhandwala
The Song We Sing: Negotiating Black Nationalism And Queerness In James Baldwin's Late Novels, Elliot N. Long
Evaluating preference-seeking and aversive qualities of Salvia divinorumand Mitragyna speciosa, Melissa Jane Loria
The Role of Personality and Cultural Intelligence in the Desire to Study Abroad, Tara Katrina Luchkiw
Essence, Christina M. Lutz
Characterization of different hydrophilic polymers and their applicability in hot melt extrusion technology, Sindhuri Maddineni
The Impact Of Dietary And Exercise Habits On College Students' Life Satisfaction, Megan L. Marsh
3-D Numerical Simulation Of Dam-Break Flows Over Movable Beds, Reza Marsooli
Prairie, Property, and Promise: Black Migrants and Farmers in Kansas, 1860-1885, Keith Dennis McCall
Memory Scapes, Michael Lee Mccarty
Representation Of Dam-Breach Geometry Using Quadtree Local Mesh Refinement, Marcus Zachariah Mcgrath
The Effect Of Instrument-Specific Rater Training On Interrater Reliability And Counseling Skills Performance Differentiation, Paul Douglas Meacham
Bacterial Assemblages And Microbial Enzyme Activity In The Major Tributaries Of The Lower Mississippi River, Justin Millar
Matrices Of Disorder: Class, Race, And The Policing Of Normative Southern Femininity In William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, And Requiem For A Nun, Claire B. Mischker
Laughing Matters, Matthew Moore
Religious Politics: An Individual Level-Examination Of The Political Implications Of Faith In Brazil, Thatianne A. Moreira
Secondary Level Music Teacher Training Institutions in Jamaica: A Historical Study, Garnet Christopher Lloyd Mowatt
Intersection(S) Between Sociocultural Knowledge, Classroom Discourse And Stance, John Munyui Muchira
Bittersweet, Melanie Joy Munns
Skin Cancer Knowledge, Beliefs, Self-Efficacy, And Preventative Behaviors Among North Mississippi Landscapers, Vinayak Kumar Nahar
Etude Sur Balzac: De La Question Du Mariage Et Du Bonheur Chez Les Aristocrates Dans La Comedie Humaine, Servane Geraldine Neolet
The Dilemma: Career Transition Of African American Male Football Players At Division I Institutions, Kellen Jamil Northcutt
Les Mutilations Genitales Feminines Dans La Litterature Et Le Film Francophones, Oluwafeyisike Ajibola Odeniyi
Muted Resistance, Wesley Harris Ortiz
Physical, Mechanical and Chemical Aging of Polyurea Nanocomposites, Ghanshyam Pal
Well-covered Graphs, Unique Colorability, and Covering Range, Wanda Renea Payne
A Neurophysiological Examination Of Stress Control In Martial Artists, Jack Pemment
Neither Slave Nor Free... : Interracial Ecclesiastical Interaction In Presbyterian Mission Churches From South Carolina To Mississippi, 1818-1877., Otis Westbrook Pickett
Slavery, Secession, and Sin: Religion and Dissent in the Upcountry South, 1820-1865, Douglas R. Porter
Last (Un)Fair Deal Goin' Down: A Case Study On The Racial Ideologies And Projects Advanced By The Blues Tourism Industry In Clarksdale, Mississippi, Kathryn Anne Radishofski
Impact Mechanics Of A Lap Joint: A Theoretical-Based Parametric Study, Seyed Amir Mansoor Rahmani
The Relationship Between Academic Entitlement, Academic Performance And Satisfaction With Life In A College Student Population, Rebekah Holmes Reysen
The Rule Of Three: Federal Courts And Prison Farms In The Post-Segregation South, Gregory Louis Richard
Plain Folk Recovered: Class, Property And Agriculture In Lawrence County, Alabama, 1850-1860, Joseph Thomas Richardson
Mounds In The Landscape: A Comparative Study Of Landscape Archaeology In English-Speaking Northwest Europe And North America, Jennifer Ann Rich
Nanoenhanced Polyurea As A Blast Resistant Coating For Concrete Masonry Walls, Heather Kathryn Daniell Rivera
The Relationships Between Advocacy Competency, Adult Attachment Styles, Climate And Comfort In Training, And Social Empathy., Tyler Rogers
Big Ben: The Gentle Rebel, Brandon Christopher Rook
Discrepant Self-Reporting In Men And Women's Accounts Of Sexual Assault: An Analysis Of Survey Item Wording, Walter Thomas Rueff Jr.
Recipes Exist In The Moment: Cookbooks And Culture In The Post-Civil War South, Kelsielynn Ruff
Improving Qualitative Assessment In Higher Education, Chad Woodson Russell
TV Casualties: The Negative Impact Of Political Messages In Non-News Programs, Salvatore James Russo
The Manufacturing and Ballistic Testing of Tri-axial Quasi Three Dimensional Woven Composites Layered in Polyurea, Brandon Saint
An Implicit Finite-Volume Depth-Integrated Model For Coastal Hydrodynamics And Multiple-Sized Sediment Transport, Alejandro Sanchez
The Darker Angels Of Our Nature: The South In American Horror Film, Steven Clayton Saunders
Community Pharmacists' Attitudes Toward An Expanded Class Of Nonprescription Drugs, Ruchitbhai Mukesh Shah
Micro-Mechanics Based Representative Volume Element Modeling Of Heterogeneous Cementitious Materials, Mohammadmehdi Shahzamanian Sichani
Fiber Reinforcement Compaction In Resin Injection Pultrusion Process, Neerad Shakya
Modeling Software Product Lines Using Feature Diagrams, Hazim Husain Shatnawi
Revolutionary-Era Republicanism As Championed By Nathaniel Macon And John Randolph Of Roanoke, Barbara Hensley Shepard